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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5 million and my A Round in 2005 was only $500,000 (and that’s all I ever raised).

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Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage IPO 328

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Today, I went to an event in the city of Campbell to hear Matt Mickiewicz, Founder of SitePoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, talk about how he got started. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. Some vendors go bankrupt.

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JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343